RunCoCo Guides, Training Resources, and Software
Here you can find resources and documentation offering advice on different aspects of running a community collection online.
Reports
- Digitisation, curation & two-way engagement (2009).
- Capturing the power of the crowd and the challenge of community collections (2010)
- RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online (2011). A simple A,B,C of advice for projects and groups who aim to 'crowd-source' with sustainable success.
Material from the RunCoCo training workshops
The material from our events are linked to from the individual events pages.
Submission Day How-to Guides
If you plan to run a physical submission event to collect items for your community collection, these guides will help you think about everything from choosing a location to cataloging submissions.
These guides are licenced under a creative commons licence to allow you to edit them for your own purposes.
Community Collection Software
Our CoCoCo software, successfully used by The Great War Archive and Project Woruldhord, is available as a free open source package you can use to create your own online community collection. A range of supporting documentation is also available.
Links
RunCoCo is using delicious to bookmark relevant resources on the Internet. These are also listed below: To RunCoCo's delicious account.
If you require any information please contact RunCoCo.
